On Monday 31 July 2006 23:10, Ian Cheong wrote:
> >I understand compressed TIFFs get down to about 50k.
> >
> >David
>
> If you can convert them to binary (one bit depth black and white with
> appropriate threshhold), they will take up way less space.

 I fell into that thought trap already. Risky - with coloured documents you 
may loose data completely.

I prefer 8 bit grayscale for most letter scanning purposes - very efficient to 
compress, much nicer on the eye, and because of intrinsic "anti aliasing 
effect" of the gray scale, you can afford much lesser scan resolution for 
comparable image quality

(8 bit grayscale @100dpi gives you an optically comparable image quality for 
*text* of 300 dpi 1 bit B&W)

Horst
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